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Yes, the AFL functions do have an
example, however, they are of little value to non-technical
folks such as myself and Yuki. Every time that I look up a
function, it has only the techie definition, and obviously, that is as it should
be.
However, when I click to go on line to see more detailed
information, there is usually no additional detail there to see.
The help provided by this board has been enormously
helpful. However, non-techie newbys will be able to grasp it much
faster if we could see examples of practical use of these functions when
we click go online to see a more detailed description.
Below here I have pasted an earlier email from a
very frustrated Yuki.
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Side note, William,Friday,
September 12, 2003, 1:12:11 PM, you wrote:WP> if (GetDatabaseName()
== "XYZ")This seems so easy -- so very bloody easy that it is
*extremely*frustrating that I could not come up with it myself.
Perhaps thesethings are only easy in retrospect -- at least I hope
so. I neverreally thought of myself as mentally challenged until I
started usingthis software. ^_^ I knew of this function, but a
practical use forit simply eluded me. This is true of any large number of
AFLfunctions. ^^_^^The AFL reference is simply not all that much
help for minds that arenot accustomed to programming, I think. Here
is what it says aboutthis function:SYNTAX
GetDatabaseName()RETURNS STRING FUNCTION retrieves the
name of the database - the last part (folder) of the database path
EXAMPLE SEE ALSO And this was from the updated/extended
version online.Okay, it retrieves the name of the database.
Whatever would I everwant to use that capability for? ^^_^^
Now I know, of course.My point here is that this function was included
into the AFLlanguage for a reason. The developer (TJ) had a notion
ofspecifically what this might be used for, and it turns out to be
veryhandy indeed for this situation that I have recently come across.
YetNO notion of any specific practical way that this function might
beused is included in the AFL language reference, at least none that
Ican find. There is some kind of thought bridge here that
programmerscan easily cross, and non-programmers (at least this
non-programmer)cannot.A specific example of practical usage should
be given for AFLfunctions in the reference, I think. These examples
should bewritten in NON-PROGRAMMING prose. ^_^ They should be the
antithesisof Linux MAN pages. They should take little grasshoppers
like me andlead them to discovering practical usages for the
function.I would be willing to help anyone that would like to work on
thistype of project. I'm afraid, though, that my contribution would
belimited to cleaning up the wording, and making it clear. And
also,if I can understand it, it's probably a great filter for 'ready'
or'not ready'.Yuki
----- Original Message -----
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>From:
Jayson
To: <A title=amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
href="">amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 10:56
PM
Subject: RE: [amibroker] Re: Helper
duudes: Whadya say let's work up a to do list for...
Odd....in my version
of AFL function reference nearly every AFL function has an
example, many more than one, attached to
it.....
Regards,
Jayson
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face=Tahoma>-----Original Message-----From: <A
href="">Kevin243@xxxxxxx
[mailto:Kevin243@xxxxxxx]Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 11:42
PMTo: <A
href="">amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxSubject:
Re: [amibroker] Re: Helper duudes: Whadya say let's work up a to do list
for...
I asked a simple question and got a lot of answers that have nothing to
do with the question I asked. You don't know me, so how do you know what
I need. Does anybody know of a good book that comes close to AFL?
What's missing in the documentation is examples. That's how you learned
things in school - working through examples and finally creating your own
routines to solve new problems. That was true for basic Addition math
all the way through Differential Equations.
Two salesmen in Best Buy kept telling me the print cartridges they handed
me would work in my printer today. I kept telling them no, they won't
work. They talked me into trying them.
Of course they didn't work......
Kevin Campbell
In a message dated 4/4/04 10:31:56 PM Central Daylight Time,
Kevin243@xxxxxxx writes:
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That's too simple...
Kevin
In a message dated 4/4/04 10:12:56 AM Central Daylight
Time, jcasavant@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
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You
might have a look at the simple program written by Bill Peters over at
ABtools.com it allows you to tell the program what you want in
English then it spits out the AFL equiv. It may give you a quick start on
AFL programming
<FONT
color=#0000ff>Regards,
Jayson
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